<p>Have you, or anyone you known gotten in-state residency at Georgia for Tuition purposes? Can you give me any advice on how you or they achieved it, or what steps they had to take? From what I understand you have to live there for at least 12 months, register to vote, change your driver's license, get a job that pays taxes into the state, and you can't attend school-full time while there (can you do it part time?). Am i missing anything? I really would like to attend UGA, but oos would be a little too pricey. Any information on the matter you can provide would be great... just don't say its impossible because if it was impossible they'd say it was impossible (like michigan, where your whole family needs to relocate for a year to get in state residency).</p>
<p>I rule on residency appeals at another University System of GA campus; the situation as far as in-state status is the same at every USG school. If you’re under 24, your residency status is almost always that of your parents. To successfully maintain independent status when you’re <24, you’d have to move to GA for some demonstrable reason other than attending college, earn an income that is sufficient to be self-supporting, not be in school for the first 12 months that you’re in GA, do all the things that one would do when permanently relocating and sever all resident ties to your previous state, not receive any financial support from outside the state, and not be claimed on anyone else’s taxes. The purpose of all this is to thwart prospective students who attempt to do precisely what you propose. Your best shot would be to have your whole family permanently relocate to GA and become gainfully employed for a year before you apply to college, but virtually no one would do that for the sake of in-state tuition.</p>